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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 283796" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Daisy, taking a break is a good way of soldiering on, but more effectively.</p><p></p><p>Learning to listen to both your body and your mind, and what it means TO YOU - is the best thing you can do.</p><p></p><p>Back when my PTSD first reared its head, I was sent to a psychiatrist who specialised in it. I was also trying to get physically fit after having difficult child 3. I had found a healthy muesli recipe when still in the hospital and asked the dietician for the recipe. So back home, I began making this muesli.</p><p></p><p>Then about a month after I started seeing this psychiatrist, I got all the symptoms of a gastric bug. When I had trouble eating my muesli, I put the problem down to the milk I was having with it, since the gastric symptoms had been so extreme it was liekyl I had lost all lactobacillus form my GI tract. So I stopped all milk and felt better for a while. </p><p>Then I found I was OK with milk in my coffee. So I drank a glass of milk. I was fine. I had plenty of yogurt so I was probably loaded back with lactobacillus again. I tried my muesli again. The gastric symptoms returned.</p><p>THis pattern repeated.</p><p></p><p>My psychiatrist's response - "the muesli was one you first had in hospital after the baby, and your trauma is directly related to the difficult birth, plus other things. You could be getting sick when you eat the muesli as a way of rejecting the birth and the baby along with everything associated with it."</p><p></p><p>Typical bloomin' idiot of a shrink - it took us a few more years to work it out, but the problem is very simple - I can't eat rolled oats. And most muesli is made with rolled oats. Chances are there is a gluten problem too. But since then I have modified that muesli recipe and found that if I base it on rice, I'm OK. If I eat ANY commercial muesli with oats - I'm sick. Just as I was before.</p><p></p><p>So instead of it being a conditioned response and psycvhological cause, there was a purely physical cause, aggravated by me eating muesli constantly, several times a day, in my effort to lose weight, and thereby developing a sensitivity to a common antigen.</p><p></p><p>So sometimes the mind is at least involved, but not necessarily.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 283796, member: 1991"] Daisy, taking a break is a good way of soldiering on, but more effectively. Learning to listen to both your body and your mind, and what it means TO YOU - is the best thing you can do. Back when my PTSD first reared its head, I was sent to a psychiatrist who specialised in it. I was also trying to get physically fit after having difficult child 3. I had found a healthy muesli recipe when still in the hospital and asked the dietician for the recipe. So back home, I began making this muesli. Then about a month after I started seeing this psychiatrist, I got all the symptoms of a gastric bug. When I had trouble eating my muesli, I put the problem down to the milk I was having with it, since the gastric symptoms had been so extreme it was liekyl I had lost all lactobacillus form my GI tract. So I stopped all milk and felt better for a while. Then I found I was OK with milk in my coffee. So I drank a glass of milk. I was fine. I had plenty of yogurt so I was probably loaded back with lactobacillus again. I tried my muesli again. The gastric symptoms returned. THis pattern repeated. My psychiatrist's response - "the muesli was one you first had in hospital after the baby, and your trauma is directly related to the difficult birth, plus other things. You could be getting sick when you eat the muesli as a way of rejecting the birth and the baby along with everything associated with it." Typical bloomin' idiot of a shrink - it took us a few more years to work it out, but the problem is very simple - I can't eat rolled oats. And most muesli is made with rolled oats. Chances are there is a gluten problem too. But since then I have modified that muesli recipe and found that if I base it on rice, I'm OK. If I eat ANY commercial muesli with oats - I'm sick. Just as I was before. So instead of it being a conditioned response and psycvhological cause, there was a purely physical cause, aggravated by me eating muesli constantly, several times a day, in my effort to lose weight, and thereby developing a sensitivity to a common antigen. So sometimes the mind is at least involved, but not necessarily. Marg [/QUOTE]
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